On Thursday, the clouds finally broke over the water-logged Bay Area, which has seen a parade of storms since the start of February. But don't put away your umbrella yet.

After a break from the rain Thursday and Friday morning, three storms are in the forecast for the Bay Area in the upcoming week. The heaviest rain is expected to fall to the south of the Golden Gate.

The first storm is a quick-mover. What's called a "low-pressure trough" by meteorologist will blow into the area Friday night, before delivering moderate rain overnight and tapering off into light showers early Saturday morning.

The National Weather Service forecasts .5 inch to one inch of rain for lower elevations, with one to two inches in the hills and higher amounts in the Santa Lucia Range in Big Sur.

"We're not expecting areas to get pounded endlessly with this storm," said Drew Peterson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Bay Area office.

Breezy conditions are expected Friday night through Saturday morning with winds 15 to 25 mph along the coast.

On Sunday, a weak storm will fly through the region bringing some scattered showers. The North Bay, which saw extraordinarily high rainfall and severe flooding with the recent atmospheric river, is expected to get less than an inch of precipitation.

A moisture-rich atmospheric river is in the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, and while weather models are in disagreement over the exact positions of the storm, Peterson says the most likely scenario is it will focus on the Big Sur region and south to Southern California. If this forecast unfolds, the San Francisco Bay Area will generally see around an inch of rain.

"I think the uncertainty level with these atmospheric rivers is higher because the bands of moisture are so thin," said Peterson. "A slight change can drastically alter the forecast."

Peterson explains the bull's-eye of this week's atmospheric river was originally expected to be over the Eureka region, but instead it shifted south and stalled over the North Bay, delivering record-breaking rainfall and triggering flooding on streams, creeks and main stem rivers. The Russian River saw some of the worst flooding in more than 20 years.